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George Michael, Kate Bush, White Stripes and 2023 Hall of Fame Ballot – Rolling Stone
The nominations of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023 are in, and the list features George Michael, Kate Bush, Missy Elliott, the White Stripes, Sheryl Crow, Iron Maiden, Joy Division/New Order, Cyndi Lauper, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, the Spinners, A Tribe Called Quest, and Warren Zevon. The top vote-getters will be announced in May and inducted in the fall.
“This remarkable list of Nominees reflects the diverse artists and music that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honors and celebrates,” said John Sykes, Chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. “These artists have created their own sounds that have impacted generations and influenced countless others that have followed in their footsteps.”
To be eligible for this year’s ballot, each nominee’s first single or album had to have been released in 1998 or earlier. Eight of the nominees (Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, Joy Division/New Order, Cyndi Lauper, George Michael, Willie Nelson, The White Stripes, and Warren Zevon) are on the ballot for the first time. Missy Elliott and the White Stripes are appearing in their first year of eligibility.
This is the fifth nomination for Rage Against The Machine, the fourth for Kate Bush and the Spinners, and the second for Iron Maiden and A Tribe Called Quest.
Listing Joy Division and New Order as a single act may seem odd since they’re technically two different bands. But New Order was formed by the three surviving members of Joy Division almost immediately after the suicide of frontman Ian Curtis in 1980. The only difference was the addition of keyboardist Gillian Gilbert a few months later. (In 2012, the Hall of Fame brought in the Small Faces and the Faces as one unit even though they had two different singers and rather different sounds. It’s easy to argue Joy Division and New Order have more shared DNA than those two groups.)
The Hall of Fame is one of the few places outside of a courtroom where bitterly estranged bandmates are forced back into the same room. That has led to amazing reunions over the years of dormant bands like Cream, Led Zeppelin, Talking Heads, the Police, and the Doors. This class presents an opportunity for New Order to perform with former bassist Peter Hook for the first time since 2006 and for Jack White and Meg White to play together again as the White Stripes for the first time since the final episode of Late Night With Conan O’Brien in 2009.
It’s also a chance for the surviving members of A Tribe Called Quest and Soundgarden to play together again. Rage Against The Machine are on indefinite hiatus as frontman Zack de la Rocha recovers from a severe tear to his left Achilles tendon he suffered during the second night of the group’s 2022 reunion tour, but it’s possible they could play as well.
The 2023 class will be chosen by a group of over 1,000 artists, historians, and members of the music industry the Rock Hall has selected as voters. In recent years, the Hall of Fame has given The Award for Musical Excellence, the Ahmet Ertegun Award, and Early Influence Award to a wide selection of artists that didn’t appear on the ballot. In 2022, seven acts from the ballot were formally inducted, and another seven were given other awards.
The last Hall of Fame induction ceremony was held on Nov. 5, 2022, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. There’s no word on where it will be held this year.
Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?
Zebras are iconic for their distinctive coats, but have you ever wondered whether zebras are white with black stripes or black with white stripes?
The stunning black-and-white coloration of the zebra’s hide stands out in stark contrast with the dry, brown-and-green, treeless grasslands and savannah woodlands of their home territories of East and southern Africa, according to the African Wildlife Foundation.
These stripes are unique to each individual. There are three zebra species living today — the plains zebra (Equus quagga), the mountain zebra (E. zebra) and the Grevy’s zebra (E. grevyi) — and each of those species has a different striping pattern, too. For some, the darker portions of their hide are black, whereas others have browner coloring, and some have stripes only on their bodies but not on their legs. An extinct subspecies of the plains zebra called a quagga (E. quagga quagga) had minimal striping on its head, mane and neck, according to The Quagga Project.
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Despite these different patterns and coloring, all zebras have the same skin color: black, said Tim Caro, a behavioral and evolutionary ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of California, Davis. However, this doesn’t answer the question of whether their fur is black with white stripes or vice versa. For that, we have to look to the zebra’s melanocytes, or the cells that produce pigment for their fur.
Although zebras have black skin, different developmental processes determine their fur color, just like a light-skinned person can have dark hair, Caro said. In fact, zebras actually have more light-colored hair than dark — their bellies are usually light — so it may seem that zebras are white with black stripes.
But that’s not the case. Here’s why: Every piece of hair — both light and dark — grows from a follicle filled with melanocyte cells, according to a 2005 review in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. These cells produce a pigment that determines the color of hair and skin. This pigment is known as melanin; a lot of melanin leads to darker colors, like dark brown or black, while less melanin leads to lighter colors, such as hazel or blond, Live Science previously reported. Zebras’ black fur is chock-full of melanin, but melanin is absent from white fur, in essence, because the follicles that make up the stripes of white hair have “turned off” melanocytes, meaning they don’t churn out pigment.
The production of melanin from melanocytes is “prevented during the development of a white hair, but not of a black hair,” Caro told Live Science in an email. In other words, for zebras, the animals’ default state is to produce black hair, making them black with white stripes, according to Brittanica.
The exact biological processes behind the zebra’s stripes aren’t known, but in African striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio), which have light and dark stripes running along their furry bodies, the gene Alx3 is more active along light stripes than dark stripes, according to a 2016 study in the journal Nature. Alx3 effectively stops a master regulator gene in charge of melanocyte development, leading to light-colored hair, the researchers found.
So, why is the zebra black with white stripes? This unique pattern may keep away biting flies, according to research by Caro and his colleagues. In a study published in 2020 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, they found that African horseflies landed less frequently on horses wearing striped or checked rugs than they did on horses wearing solid-colored rugs. These biting flies can carry diseases that are fatal to zebras.
“There are very few mammals indeed with contrasting stripes like a zebra,” Caro said. “The okapi has similar stripes on the rump, but other than that, no other species has really distinct black and white stripes. My guess is that the fly deterrent function is unique to equids because they are so susceptible to the diseases carried by certain biting flies in Africa.”
Originally published on Live Science.
2022 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Heritage Edition offers $10,000 stripes
The GT500 Heritage Edition’s Brittany Blue flanks are an homage to the original 1967 model. See?
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Despite the fact that its new electric sibling has been hogging all the press lately, the Ford Mustang is still a decidedly rad car, and Ford is showing it a little love by debuting a couple of special-edition ponies for your driving pleasure. Announced on Friday, this pair of single-year limited editions include the GT500 Heritage Edition and the Coastal Limited Edition.
The GT500 Heritage Edition takes the already impossibly gnarly 760-horsepower GT500 and offers it up in a unique shade of Brittany Blue with the choice of either hand-painted or vinyl racing stripes. A base 2022 GT500 starts at $77,260 including $1,195 destination fee and $2,600 gas-guzzler tax. The new GT500 Heritage with Wimbledon White vinyl stripe package will set you back a further $2,140 ($79,400 all-in), while a Heritage model with optional hand-painted stripes — available in Wimbledon or Absolute Black — costs $12,140 over the base price of a regular GT500. That’s $10,000 extra if you must have your stripes done by hand, friends.
Ford also brought out a GT500 with Carbon Fiber Track Package in another new color, Code Orange.
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The 2022 Mustang Coastal Limited Edition builds on the already fun-to-drive EcoBoost Premium platform. It adds unique 19-inch wheels, faux side intakes, vinyl side stripes, a body-colored grille, a pedestal spoiler (on coupes) and light-up sill plates denoting its status as a Coastal Limited Edition. The package will be available on both convertible and coupe body styles as a $1,995 options bundle. Figure on spending around $35,500 for starters on a Coastal fastback, including delivery.
Lastly, Ford is going to offer the GT500 in the exclusive-to-Ford-Performance-models shade of Code Orange. We’ve seen this color on the F-150 Raptor and the GT supercar, but now, GT500 buyers will have a chance to paint their car with it. (You can check out more photos of it in our gallery).
Ordering for the 2022 GT500 Heritage and Coastal Edition models start Nov. 15, with the first examples expected in dealers next spring.
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Scientists reveal how tabby cats get their distinctive stripes
Tabby cats often have what looks like a letter “M” on their foreheads.
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As any cat owner can tell you, cats don’t give up their secrets easily. But a new study, published Tuesday in the science journal Nature Communications, delves into a long-held kitty mystery: How exactly does a tabby cat’s genes make those striking stripe patterns in its fur?
“Tabby” isn’t a breed; it’s a distinct fur pattern common among cats. Tabby cats often have what looks like a letter “M” on their foreheads, plus bold stripes of varying design in their fur. The tabbys have made their mark on pop culture, too. Morris the 9Lives cat food mascot is an orange tabby, as are cartoon cats Garfield and Heathcliff.
In the new study, conducted by scientists affiliated with Alabama’s HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the Stanford University School of Medicine, 200 litters of nonviable embryos were examined, delving into the mystery of how patterns emerge in a developing cat.
“We think this is really the first glimpse into what the molecules (involved in pattern development) might be,” Dr. Gregory S. Barsh, one of the report’s authors, told The New York Times.
The study found that differences in the expression of the embryo’s genes determined the colors they would later produce when growing hair follicles. Seemingly identical cat-skin cells can acquire different genetic signatures that later result in the cat’s intricate fur patterns. The same could hold true for large wild cats, such as leopards and tigers.
The new research determined that a gene known as Dickkopf 4 (Dkk4) is vital to the process. Some cats, such as the elegant Abyssinian, carry what’s called a ticked pattern, where instead of stripes, the cat may appear similar to a tabby in some areas, yet have smaller, fleck-like markings. The study shows that this comes when the Dkk4 gene is mutated in those cats.
It all may seem like more than you wanted to know about your favorite feline, but the study notes that “understanding the basis of the animal color pattern is a question of longstanding interest for developmental and evolutionary biology.”
Joe Exotic’s Weed Line Packaging Features Tiger Stripes, Pride Flag
Joe Exotic has dubbed himself “The New King of Cannabis” … it’s front-and-center in the packaging of his new weed line and TMZ’s obtained the first pics.
The colorful packet for his new cannabis line, Joe Exotic Cannabis, will be unveiled next week at the cannabis CHAMPS Trade Show in Las Vegas … and TMZ has a first look at what Joe and his partners have been up to since announcing their new venture last month.
The packaging’s got Joe’s touches all over it … from paying homage to his moniker as the so-called “Tiger King” … to celebrating his sexual orientation with a display of the Pride flag at the bottom of the package.
There are tigers, lions and cubs drawings on the front of the package … and Joe’s smoking a blunt while sitting on his new throne. As we first reported … Joe’s team struck up a deal with Tango Hotel Charlie Group, LLC and Cannaxxs LTD to launch the line.
Even though Joe’s behind bars, he’s been pretty hands-on through calls and emails with his attorney, Brad Small.
Joe is working with Joshua Anderson, the founder of Tango Hotel Charlie Group. Joshua will be handling the distribution and brand development. They’ve partnered with Xotic Flavorz farm in Honeydew, CA to produce the cannabis.
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And, get this … Joe’s line will also debut a cannabis seltzer at next week’s trade show. The seltzer’s name is aptly dubbed “Tiger Piss.” Some of the flavors include tiger’s blood orange and peach-mango.
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Gigantic Stone ‘Tiger Stripes’ Etched Across Ethiopia Pose an Ancient Mystery
If we want to predict our planet’s future under climate change, we must better understand what has happened on Earth before, even hundreds of thousands of years in the past.
New research into the Ethiopian Highlands during the Last Glacial Period helps do just that. As well as answering some geological questions, it has also raised up a new one: What created the gigantic stone stripes across the central Sanetti Plateau in the Bale Mountains?
As part of the research, scientists looked at moraine boulder samples in the Bale and Arsi Mountains, rocks that would once have been carried along by glaciers.
By studying their physical arrangement and measuring the extent of decay in an isotope of chlorine, they determined that past glaciations would not have been in sync with other similar stretches of mountains.
(Groos et al., Earth Surface Dynamics, 2021)
“Our results show that glaciers in the southern Ethiopian Highlands reached their maximum extent between 40,000 and 30,000 years ago, several thousand years earlier than in other mountainous regions in Eastern Africa and worldwide,” says glaciologist Alexander Groos from the University of Bern in Switzerland.
While these highlands aren’t packed with ice today, between 42,000 and 28,000 years ago – thousands of years before the most recent period in which ice sheets stretched far from the poles – they would have been topped by glaciers that covered as much as 350 square kilometres (about 135 square miles). The relatively early cooling and glacier onset is likely caused by variations in rainfall and mountain features, the researchers say.
In other words, temperature wasn’t the only driver of glacier movement across Eastern Africa during this time. Such insights can help us understand what might happen next, and what the impact on biodiversity and ecosystems is likely to be.
As for the massive stone stripes formed by boulders and basalt columns, they were discovered during the course of the research, just outside the area of the former ice cap. The stripes measure up to 1,000 meters (3,281 feet) long, 15 meters (49 feet) wide, and 2 meters (6.5 feet) deep, and haven’t been seen before in the tropics.
“The existence of these stone stripes on a tropical plateau surprised us, as so-called periglacial landforms of this magnitude were previously only known from the temperate zone and polar regions and are associated with ground temperatures around freezing point,” says Groos.
Another way in which the Ethiopian Highlands are different to their immediate neighbors then, in terms of what went down during the last ice age. The scientists think these stripes are the natural result of periodic freezing and thawing of the ground near the ice cap, which would have drawn similar rocks together.
That would have required substantial drops in the ground and air temperature, however – and what’s less clear is whether this is typical of the way tropical high mountains cooled at the time, or whether it was a regional phenomenon.
We’ll need to wait for future studies of other regions to find out, but the research gives plenty for scientists to go on. Understanding climate shifts in the tropics is crucial – it’s where much of the circulation of the world’s atmosphere and oceans is driven from – and it would seem these mountainous regions might have experienced the Last Glacial Period in a variety of different ways.
“Our findings highlight the importance of understanding the local climatic setting when attempting to draw wider climatic interpretations from glacial chronologies,” conclude the researchers in one of their newly published papers.
The research has been published in Science Advances and Earth Surface Dynamics.
Odd stripes spotted by NASA satellite in Russia baffle scientist
A NASA satellite orbiting the earth taking pictures has spotted something that has scientists stumped in Siberia’s cold Arctic reaches in Russia. Near the Markha River in Siberia, the earth has ripples that scientists don’t completely understand. NASA recently posted new images of the odd landscape to its Earth Observatory website, taken with the Landsat 8 satellite over several years.
The images show land on both sides of the river rippled with alternating dark and light stripes. The odd effect is visible in all four seasons but is more pronounced during the winter when white snow gives even more contrast to the pattern. NASA isn’t entirely sure what causes the pattern on the Siberian ground.
One potential explanation has to do with the frigid temperatures in the region spend 90 percent of the year covered in permafrost that occasionally thaws for brief intervals. NASA says land that continuously freezes, thaws, and freezes again can take on strange circular or striped designs called patterned ground. The effect results from the natural tendency of stones to sort themselves out over a freeze-thaw cycle.
NASA does admit that other examples of patterned ground tend to be much smaller in scale than what is seen in Siberia. Another potential explanation for the strange patterns is surface erosion. Geologist Thomas Crafford, with the US geological survey, told NASA that the stripes resemble a pattern in sedimentary rock known as layer cake geology.
Those patterns happen when melting snow or rain runs downhill, chipping away and flushing pieces of sedimentary rock into piles. This process can build slabs of sediment that look like slices of a layer cake. Crafford says that the darker stripes represent deeper areas, with the lighter stripes representing flatter areas. Exactly what causes the strange stripes will remain a mystery until the site can be studied up close.
Mysterious stripes spotted over Russia in satellite images — and NASA is perplexed
Near the Markha River in Arctic Siberia, the earth ripples in ways that scientists don’t fully understand.
Earlier this week, NASA researchers posted a series of satellite images of the peculiar wrinkled landscape to the agency’s Earth Observatory website. Taken with the Landsat 8 satellite over several years, the photos show the land on both sides of the Markha River rippling with alternating dark and light stripes. The puzzling effect is visible in all four seasons, but it is most pronounced in winter, when white snow makes the contrasting pattern even more stark.
Why is this particular section of Siberia so stripy? Scientists aren’t totally sure, and several experts offered NASA conflicting explanations.
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One possible explanation is written in the icy ground. This region of the Central Siberian Plateau spends about 90% of the year covered in permafrost, according to NASA, though it occasionally thaws for brief intervals. Patches of land that continuously freeze, thaw and freeze again have been known to take on strange circular or stripy designs called patterned ground, scientists reported in a study published in January 2003 in the journal Science. The effect occurs when soils and stones naturally sort themselves during the freeze-thaw cycle.
However, other examples of patterned ground — such as the stone circles of Svalbard, Norway — tend to be much smaller in scale than the stripes seen in Siberia.
Another possible explanation is erosion. Thomas Crafford, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, told NASA that the stripes resemble a pattern in sedimentary rocks known as layer cake geology.
These patterns occur when snowmelt or rain trickles downhill, chipping and flushing pieces of sedimentary rock into piles. The process can reveal slabs of sediment that look like slices of a layer cake, Crafford said, with the darker stripes representing steeper areas and the lighter stripes signifying flatter areas.
In accordance with the image above, this sort of sedimentary layering would stand out more in winter, when white snow rests on the flatter areas, making them appear even lighter. The pattern fades as it approaches the river, where sediment gathers into more uniform piles along the banks after millions of years of erosion, Crafford added.
This explanation seems to fit well, according to NASA. But until the region can be studied up close, it’ll remain another one of those quintessentially Siberian curiosities.
Originally published on Live Science.
Gripping Ripples: NASA Stunned by Perplexing Stripes Dotting Russia’s Arctic Siberia in Satellite Pics
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Waves and creases along the banks of Siberia’s Markha River appear to look more like stripes in recently published images, yet it remains unknown if the geological build-up is solely responsible for the weird pattern.
NASA researchers have unveiled what has been deemed as a quintessentially Siberian curiosity, posting a slew of satellite images of a remarkably wrinkled landscape in the vicinity of the Markha River in Arctic Siberia.
Captured with a Landsat 8 satellite over several years, the series of photos show the land on both sides of the Markha River creased with alternating dark and light stripes, irrespective of the season, although it becomes more obvious in winter when the whiteness of snow makes the contrast in the “texture” of the landscape much starker.
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One of the suggested explanations for the phenomenon lies in inherent geological features. According to the space agency, this region of the Central Siberian Plateau is covered in permafrost for the lion’s share of the year, though it occasionally – albeit briefly – thaws.
Those stretches of land that repeatedly freeze, thaw, and freeze anew have been known to take on strange circular or stripy shapes, making the nearby ground peculiarly pattered, scientists reported in a study published in January 2003 in the journal Science. The pattern occurs when soils and stones sort themselves in a natural way during the freeze-melt intervals.
Another possible explanation is erosion, scientists believe. Thomas Crafford, a geologist with the US Geological Survey, told NASA that the stripes resemble a pattern in sedimentary rocks commonly referred to as layer cake geology. These patterns occur when melted snow or rain trickles downhill, cutting and flushing pieces of sedimentary rock into piles. The process can reveal slabs of sediment that resemble slices of a layer cake, Crafford explained, with the darker stripes representing steeper sretches of land while the lighter stripes point to flatter areas.
As follows from the images provided by NASA, this type of sedimentary layering stand out more during the cold season, when white snow stays on flatter areas longer, making them appear to be lighter. Crafford added though that this naturally crafted design fades in areas closer to the river, where sediment piles up more uniformly along the banks, and where increased erosion by water has been taking place for millions of years.